Monday, July 26, 2010

Anatomy of a Scarecrow

1. Hunt through second hand stores for wild clothing, plaid shirts, overalls, sleepers, and cool or interesting looking props during the winter.
2. A week or two before opening day buy a ton of straw from a farmer.
3. Assemble clothing. Either making completely outrageous looking outfits or according to a theme (we have a disco scene this year).
4. Tie shirt ends and pant ends. If standing put in stand. Than stuff, stuff, stuff, and stuff.
5. When done we load the scarecrows onto a trailer and drop them off in the forest.
6. At each scene we arrange the scarecrows and add the props.
7. Than Lorissa goes around and makes up a short story for each scene.

Viola, you have a scarecrow bird watching, a scarecrow with 6 children screaming while she tries to iron and make supper, a scarecrow tending his plot of crops, plus many more.

If you would like to stuff a scarecrow for your own yard we specific days you can stuff your own scarecrow or if you would like to make one sooner phone us and we can arrange a day. Check us out at www.pennerpumpkins.com. Penner Pumpkins is also on Facebook.

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